Literary Significance and Criticism
The Greene Murder Case became the number four bestseller in the US during its first year of publication. "An overblown and overfootnoted tale recording the exploits of Philo Vance. He solves a series of murders in an old New York mansion, ostensibly by tumbling to the fact that the murderer's method was plagiarized from Gross's Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter, but actually by waiting until the criminal has disposed of most the family."
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